The Works of Shakespeare, Volume 11Macmillan and Company, limited, 1903 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 36
Page 21
... Queen Elizabeth , and were mainly , as Mr. Symonds suggests , elaborately decorated censers in which incense was lavishly burned to a Queen in- credibly avid of adulation and flattery . As a writer of comedies for the Court , the author ...
... Queen Elizabeth , and were mainly , as Mr. Symonds suggests , elaborately decorated censers in which incense was lavishly burned to a Queen in- credibly avid of adulation and flattery . As a writer of comedies for the Court , the author ...
Page 32
... Queen's Company to Strat- ford in 1568 , would seem to indicate that , whatever his religious convictions and ecclesiastical tendencies may have been , he did not share the fanatical temper of some of his contemporaries . The child ...
... Queen's Company to Strat- ford in 1568 , would seem to indicate that , whatever his religious convictions and ecclesiastical tendencies may have been , he did not share the fanatical temper of some of his contemporaries . The child ...
Page 42
... Queen delighted in those gorgeous pageants which symbolized by their splendour the greatness of her place and the ... Queen the personal devotion which as a woman she craved , she fed her unsatisfied imagination on flattery and impos ...
... Queen delighted in those gorgeous pageants which symbolized by their splendour the greatness of her place and the ... Queen the personal devotion which as a woman she craved , she fed her unsatisfied imagination on flattery and impos ...
Page 43
... Queen's visit was made in July , when nature supplemented with lavish beauty all the various art and immense wealth which Leicester freely drew upon for the entertainment of his capricious and exacting mistress . Pageants and diversions ...
... Queen's visit was made in July , when nature supplemented with lavish beauty all the various art and immense wealth which Leicester freely drew upon for the entertainment of his capricious and exacting mistress . Pageants and diversions ...
Page 44
... Queen was made the occasion of granting a holiday it is much too late to assert or deny ; that the more adventurous took one is more than probable . In those days even the splendour of the wandering players paled before that of the Queen ...
... Queen was made the occasion of granting a holiday it is much too late to assert or deny ; that the more adventurous took one is more than probable . In those days even the splendour of the wandering players paled before that of the Queen ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
action actors appeared artistic beauty Ben Jonson brought century character charm chronicle plays church classical comedy contemporaries creative deep drama dramatist earlier England English experience expression fact Falstaff fate feeling force fortunes freedom friends genius Globe Theatre Hamlet hand harmony Henry human humour imagination influence insight instinct interest Italian John Shakespeare Jonson Julius Cæsar kind King later literary literature lived London Love's Labour's Lost lyrical Macbeth manner Marlowe material mind mood moral nature ness noble passion period play players playwright plot poem poet poet's poetic poetry popular presented probably Puritan Queen Rape of Lucrece romance Romeo and Juliet Shake significance Sonnets speare speare's speech spirit stage story Stratford taste temper theatre thought tion Titus Andronicus touch tradition tragedy tragic Venus and Adonis verse vital Warwickshire writing written young